List of Famous people who died in 1936

Karl Ludwig Hampe was a German historian of the Middle Ages, particularly the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the High Middle Ages.

Sidney Johnston Catts was an American politician and anti-Catholic activist who served as the governor of Florida as a member of the Prohibition Party. After leaving office he became involved in criminal procedures due to his activities as governor and for business activities after leaving office. He was later acquitted, although he went bankrupt in the process.

Ibra Charles Blackwood was the 97th Governor of South Carolina from 1931 to 1935.

Thomas Martin Lowry was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society.

Karl Buresch was a lawyer, Christian-Social politician and Chancellor of Austria during the First Republic.

Nahum Sokolow was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism.

Joshua Willis Alexander was United States Secretary of Commerce from December 16, 1919 - March 4, 1921 in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson.

Albert Nikolayevitch Benois was a Russian painter and art teacher who specialized in watercolor landscapes.

Montague Rhodes James was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15).

Ján Levoslav Bella was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of the 19th century.